The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000About national and international power in the "modern" or Post Renaissance period. Explains how the various powers have risen and fallen over the 5 centuries since the formation of the "new monarchies" in W. Europe. "From the Trade Paperback edition. |
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Page 168
... fact for most French producers after 1815 was the existence of an overwhelmingly dominant and pow- erful industrial producer not only as their nearest neighbor but as a mighty force in all foreign markets and sometimes even in their own ...
... fact for most French producers after 1815 was the existence of an overwhelmingly dominant and pow- erful industrial producer not only as their nearest neighbor but as a mighty force in all foreign markets and sometimes even in their own ...
Page 328
... fact that the gross value of manufactures produced per head of population in the United States was nearly twice as high as in Great Britain or Germany , and more than ten to eleven times as high as in the USSR or Italy . " 146 While it ...
... fact that the gross value of manufactures produced per head of population in the United States was nearly twice as high as in Great Britain or Germany , and more than ten to eleven times as high as in the USSR or Italy . " 146 While it ...
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... facts that so many of its immigrants were fleeing from socially rigid circumstances elsewhere ; that the sheer size of ... fact that the poorest one - third of American society has not been " mobil- ized " to become regular voters . But ...
... facts that so many of its immigrants were fleeing from socially rigid circumstances elsewhere ; that the sheer size of ... fact that the poorest one - third of American society has not been " mobil- ized " to become regular voters . But ...
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World Power Centers in the Sixteenth Century | 5 |
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The Political Divisions of Europe in the Sixteenth Century | 18 |
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